8 Articles match "Houses","May","Michigan"

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• Michigan Goes Hollywood to Help Homeowners
  
  Rather, it’s more of a “reality” television show. The State of Michigan is hitting the airwaves with a cable television show of its own called “House Michigan” aimed at promoting homeownership and everything that entails. Since January 2006 Michigan has ranked in RealtyTrac’s top 10 states with the greatest foreclosure activity in the nation, most of that time maintaining a position in the top five. Lights! Camera!
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Burning Down the House
  
  But in Michigan, where foreclosures are widespread and a hot market for real estate investors, people are burning down the homes to avoid foreclosure . . . Last month, a Michigan homeowner in foreclosure was arrested for allegedly setting her three-year old Grand Rapids home on fire to collect the insurance money, according to the Grand Rapids Press . Foreclosure fraud — and now arson and insurance fraud — are becoming For many real estate investors, the foreclosure market is smoking. Foreclosures nationwide are heating up, especially in once-supercharged real estate bubbles
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• May Home Prices Down 4.8 Percent
  
  Home prices were down again in May, but a few regions of the country experienced a ever-slight uptick in prices from the previous month, giving officials at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) a chance to be cautiously optimistic in the press release announcing the numbers. "It quot;It is very hard to draw conclusions from a one-month number, especially in these uncertain times; but the numbers in the Pacific, East and West North Central Divisions may be good signs," said OFHEO Director James B. Lockhart in the release. Nationwide, the
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Obtaining a Foreclosure List
  
  Information like list price, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, property size, photos, and sometimes even high-tech mapping are included. Why Free Foreclosure Lists May Be Risky Finding a foreclosure list that homebuyers and real estate investors can depend on can be really challenging. Price: $0.00 Know how much your house is worth? Obtaining a Foreclosure List Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Obtaining an up-to-date foreclosure list thats reliable can now be done fast and easy with internet access. A
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Study Forecasts Rising Subprime Foreclosures
  
  The study, which cites RealtyTrac numbers as one of its sources, looked at subprime foreclosure rates from 1998 through 2006 and closely ties those rates to house price appreciation. The projection of an accelerating subprime foreclosure rate is based on the expectation that house price appreciation will continue to slow. The study argues that subprime foreclosures will heavily impact the A new study released yesterday by the Center for Responsible Lending projects that one out of five subprime mortgages originated in the past two years will end in foreclosure, costing homeowners as much as $164 billion. “This rate is nearly double the projected rate of subprime loans made in 2002, and it exceeds the worst foreclosure experience in the modern mortgage market, which occurred during the “Oil Patch” disaster of the 1980s.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• ARM'd and Dangerous?
  
  But our fascination with these loans and their impact on foreclosurerates may have had something of a blurring effect on how clearly weview the overall foreclosure market. Under "normal" circumstances, wedprobably look at the Midwest rates and chalk them up tohigher-than-average unemployment rates (a very strong predictor offoreclosure rates) and lower-than-average house appreciation ratescoupled with weak housing demand. Another nice post from Jonathan Miller on his Matrix blog, "Foreclose Already So We Can Get Back To Normal" ( http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=568 p=568
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Fannie: Q1 a Swift Kick in the Rear
  
  It may have been created and chartered by the federal government, but Fannie Mae (the Federal National Mortgage Association) is first and foremost a private company responsible to shareholders for running at a profit. Still, Fannie’s largest credit losses were concentrated in the states with the largest home price declines — California, Florida, Michigan and Ohio — four states that have remained among RealtyTrac's top foreclosure states in the nation for more than a year now. And as with many corporations in this country, the national economy is kicking Fannie around…fast and hard! One of the nation’s two Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs), Fannie reported a first quarter net loss of $2.2
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• July Foreclosure Report
  
  There will be more people that can afford to buy a house now, since prices were going too high too fast. Whether a person lives in the house or not, if they get a foreclosure notice, it is still a foreclosure notice.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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